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Yasme Excellence Award The Yasme Excellence Award is presented to individuals and groups who, through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication, have made a significant contribution to amateur radio The INDEXA Humanitarian Aid Fund - 'The Zorro Miyazawa, JH1AJT, Hams with Hearts Fund' INDEXA is proud to announce a new epitaph for our Humanitarian Aid Fund. The addition will be 'The Zorro Miyazawa, JH1AJT, Hams with Hearts Fund' in honor of its founder who recently became a silent key. Decoder CW Technical Reference/Morse Code Decoder A homemade morse code decoder project, providing a detailed schematic and pictures 70MHz Quarter Wave GP Antenna Antennas/4M A homemade quarter wave ground plane anntenna for 4 meters band. Solar cycle update - more New sunspot counts from NOAA confirm that Solar Cycle 25 is racing ahead of the official forecast--and the gap is growing Results of Commonwealth Contest 2022 released The results from the 85th Commonwealth Contest held March 12-13, 2022, have been released Paper shortage hits amateur radio magazines The national societies of both Switzerland (USKA) and the USA (ARRL) have reported difficulties in getting hold of the paper needed for their magazine Thailand holds Intermediate ham radio exam On Saturday, February 5, 2022, Thailand's regulator the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) hosted an Intermediate class amateur radio examination RAZzies magazine available as free PDF The Radio Amateurs Zoetermeer (RAZ) consists of members of the Dutch VERON and VRZA national amateur radio societies as well as 27 MHz operators and listeners Solar cycle update: The gap is growing Sunspot counts just hit their highest level in nearly 7 years, continuing a trend of relatively strong growth for Solar Cycle 25 YOTA Summer Camp 2022 Youngsters On The Air has announced this year's IARU Region 1 YOTA Summer Camp will take place August 6-13 in Croatia IARU Region 2 Online Emergency Communications Workshops Two IARU R2 Emergency Communications Workshops will be held on April 9-10, one day will be in English the other in Spanish Measuring with a MiniVNA Technical Reference/Vector Network Analyzer Measuring technicques using a MiniVNA, author describes how to determine and unknown inductance, or how to determine an unknown capacitance, crystals, how determine insertion loss and directional attenuation of couples and power dividers, coax switches or even common mode chockes. Dave Ritter, ND4MR, Receives ARRL Herb S. Brier Instructor of the Year Award The 2021 ARRL Herb S. Brier Award for Instructor of The Year was given to recipient Dave Ritter, ND4MR. The award was presented during the ARRL forum at the Charlotte, North Carolina Hamfest on Saturday, March 12. An ARRL Member for nearly 40 years, Ritter is an ARRL Registered Instructor and a full-time faculty member at Wilkes Community College in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, where he’s b... The KC5LDO Vertical Antenna Antennas/Portable Antenna for Field Day or Everyday. aA simple yet rugged six band quarter wave vertical antenna system perfect for field day or home use. Day Xenia Hamvention SouthWest Ohio DX Dinner - There are only about 6 weeks left until the 35th annual DX Dinner. The dinner, held in conjunction with the 2022 Dayton Hamvention, will be on Friday, May 20th, at the Marriott Hotel in Dayton Two hunters missing for three days in Fiordland found Two hunters who have been missing in Fiordland (New Zealand) since Saturday have been found. The pair were found walking out of the bush near Lilliburn Valley Road New licensing regulations in Bangladesh The Financial Express reports new Ministry of Post, Telecommunication and ICT licensing regulations came into effect in Bangladesh on March 16, 2022 ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Space Hardware Club, Huntsville, Alabama, USA Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and U.S. students at the Space Hardware Club in Huntsville, Alabama. ARISS conducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard the ISS ISS SSTV April 7-8 145.800 MHz FM Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV (SSTV) images on 145.800 MHz FM probably using the SSTV mode PD-120 Belgium: UBA bans Russian and Belarus radio hams Belgium's UBA has joined other national Amateur Radio societies in banning amateurs from Russia and Belarus from contests Introducing the IC-T10 VHF/UHF Dual-Band FM Transceiver Icom has announced details of a new 5W VHF/UHF dual-band Amateur handheld radio called the IC-T10 2 Meter Portable Yagi Antenna Antennas/2M 144MHz 2m Portable Yagi VHF Beam Antenna. This page contains construction details on a 2 metre 144MHz VHF Yagi beam antenna, designed for portable use. Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2210 Chinese uSDX Review, MLOG , An Antenna for 75 and 80 Meters Band, 13 Elements Yagi for 144 MHz, What to Expect at Solar Minimum, Amateur Radio Social Network, Sita audio recorder, W4MCT Johnson County (Tennessee) Amateur Radio Club, W8LRK Livingston amateur radio club site SDRangel Software/Software Defined Radio SDRangel is an Open Source Qt5 / OpenGL 3.0+ SDR and signal analyzer frontend to various hardware TX & RX Software Defined Radio. SDRangel uses sample source plugins to collect I/Q samples from a hardware device. Monaco special callsign Members of Association of Radio Amateurs from Monaco (ARM) will be using the special callsign 3A5M to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Prince Albert 1st of Monaco (1848- 1922) Erie ham radio operator facing terroristic threat charges TV News report on the charges facing amateur radio operator Richard L. Wagner Amateur radio led to teenager embarking on electronics career The Bradford Telegraph and Argus reports amateur radio led to a career in electronics for Geoff Higgins G3UBD RAC Basic Qualification Amateur Radio Course: Summer 2022 Registration for the RAC Basic Summer 2022 Course is now underway Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for ham radio Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday about how to convert a wind-up tape measure into a portable amateur radio antenna Role of radio amateurs during invasion of the Falkland Islands The Scotsman newspaper reports on the role played by radio amateurs Tony Pole-Evans VP8HZ, Bob McLeod VP8LP and Les Hamilton GM3ITN of Clydebank, during the invasion of the Falkland Islands 40 years ago Ham Radio Satellite Operators Team Costa Rica During the annual celebration organized by the Amateur Radio Association Cartago TI0ARC, the start of the Ham Radio Satellite Operators Team – Costa Rica was announced, a group that comes to publicize the activities of AMSAT TI, within the Radio Club of Costa Rica TI0RC Norway's NRRL achieves 2,000 members The national amateur radio society of Norway, the NRRL, reports an increase in membership, it now has over 2,000 members ARISS contact scheduled for students in Nauen, Germany This will be a direct contact via amateur radio. Students at Leonardo-Da-Vinci Campus Nauen, Nauen, Germany will ask questions to astronaut Matthias Maurer, amateur radio call sign KI5KF